Starring

The Post

Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in this incredibly timely (if a bit self-congratulatory) drama about journalists at the Washington Post and the New York Times struggling with the decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, detailing the controversial involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War. It's a pressure cooker of a literary thriller about hard journalism and value of the Fourth Estate in a democratic society that still imagines itself a Capra-esque game changer.115 minutes PG-13.